Plame Gossip - No Rove indictment for ten days
Rawstory says that MSNBC is slated to report that Rove's attorneys have been told by Fitzgerald that there will be no decision in the case for at least ten days. So, nothing today or next week.
That sounds odd to me unless Fitzgerald has a weeklong vacation scheduled. There are wheels turning behind the scenes. My guess would be that after Rove's testimony, Fitzgerald offered another figure in the case one week to make a decision.
It's just a hunch, but it would indicate that there are a lot more moving parts in this thing than we can currently see. Also, it might indicate that by next week or the week after, we may have a Rove indictment and someone pleading to an information and publicly cooperating with Fitzgerald. (Hadley?)
And, I want to know more about the 250 "missing" emails. I think that's now the key to this whole thing. It could be hard evidence of a coordinated obstruction and coverup seemingly coming from high in the VP's office.
(Also, I don't know what happened to my template. I'll probably get to fixing it over the weekend. Please excuse our mess.)
That sounds odd to me unless Fitzgerald has a weeklong vacation scheduled. There are wheels turning behind the scenes. My guess would be that after Rove's testimony, Fitzgerald offered another figure in the case one week to make a decision.
It's just a hunch, but it would indicate that there are a lot more moving parts in this thing than we can currently see. Also, it might indicate that by next week or the week after, we may have a Rove indictment and someone pleading to an information and publicly cooperating with Fitzgerald. (Hadley?)
And, I want to know more about the 250 "missing" emails. I think that's now the key to this whole thing. It could be hard evidence of a coordinated obstruction and coverup seemingly coming from high in the VP's office.
(Also, I don't know what happened to my template. I'll probably get to fixing it over the weekend. Please excuse our mess.)
posted by mikevotes at
1:06 PM
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Can we assume that whoever was responsible for the scrub operation is in for a major obstruction of justice charge?
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JUSIPER, at 2:15 PM
Yes, but....
I think it's a matter of evidence. From the outside it's impossible to know just how much evidence Fitzgerald has.
Certainly, deleting emails to hide them from a prosecutor is black letter obstruction.
But there's the interesting question of who, and how many, and who coordinated it.
If you look way back in the Plame story, there's that really weird anomaly around Fitzgerald's first request for documents.
Gonzales and Card knew about it late afternoon/early evening, but delayed notification to the White House staff for about 12 hours. So, not only do you have the deletion of the emails but also the possible whitehouse wide involvement.
So, I don't know what Fitzgerald has got in evidence. It's clear he has a number of people who have spoken honestly from the stand, but who and what tidbits they told him, is still a bit beneath the surface.
This whole thing has a potential to round up VP's office and whitehouse staff. It all just depends. Rove is just a mid game move in my analysis, but we're nearing the end game. There is always a clarity moment when all the last moves suddenly seem mapped out. We're almost there.
Soon, we'll know.
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mikevotes, at 2:41 PM
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